EDMONTON – Sergei Bobrovsky made 21 saves to earn his fourth shutout of the season because the Florida Panthers continued to plague Edmonton, rising with a 4-0 victory over the Oilers on Thursday in a rematch of the final two Stanley Cup finals.
Cole Reinhardt, A.J. Greer, Anton Lundell and Carter Verhaeghe scored for the injury-riddled Panthers (34-31-3), who snapped a two-game shedding skid.
Sam Bennett, Evan Rodrigues and Michael Benning all had two help video games. The Panthers are nearly sure to overlook the playoffs and an opportunity to defend their back-to-back titles.
Connor Ingram made 19 stops within the loss for Edmonton (34-27-9).
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The Oilers had a modest two-game successful streak halted and missed out on a possibility to maneuver forward of idle Anaheim into first within the Pacific Division.
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Edmonton remained with out star ahead Leon Draisaitl, out for the remainder of the common season with a decrease physique harm.
Takeaways
Panthers: Benning, a fourth-round (ninety fifth general) choice within the 2020 Entry Draft by Florida, was taking part in in simply his fourth profession NHL recreation. The 24-year-old Edmonton-area native defenceman already has three factors.
Oilers: Captain Connor McDavid remains to be two targets in need of 400, one help away from 800 and three factors shy of 1,200 for his profession.
Key second:
Florida went up 3-0 on the ability play with 5:39 to play within the second interval as Lundell put away his 18th purpose of the season on a loos puck in entrance of the web.
Key stat
Florida has been hit laborious by accidents all season lengthy with essentially the most man-games misplaced within the league together with many prolonged IR stints. Amongst these out of the lineup on Thursday have been Aleksander Barkov, Brad Marchand and Sam Reinhart. Solely defenceman Gustav Forsling has managed to look in all 68 video games this season. Conversely, six Oilers have performed in each recreation: Connor McDavid, Matt Savoie, Vasily Podkolzin, Evan Bouchard, Mattias Ekholm, and Darnell Nurse.
Up subsequent
Oilers: Host the Tampa Bay Lightning on Saturday.
Panthers: Go to the Calgary Flames on Friday.
This report by The Canadian Press was first printed March 19, 2026.
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